College gymnast Melanie Coleman, 20, was a . Dawes has stayed busy since her gymnastics career ended, including when she earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland in 2002. After earning her first 10.0 on the uneven bars, she went on to score six more before the Games were over. Raisman also won gold for her floor routine in 2012 and then an all-around silver medal in 2016. Karin Buttner-Janz turned in one of the greatest performances in an Olympic Games in 1972, when she won five medals, including two gold medals in individual events. Boginskaya, who was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2006, also sells gymnastics apparel online and spent years creating gymnastics camps around Houston. In 2017, Gutsu accused former Soviet Olympic gold medal gymnast Vitaly Scherbo of raping her when she was 15 years old. Medals: 4 (gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around/silver, all-around/silver, floor). He is also a social-media star, with two popular YouTube channels, where he posts his work-out videos and other life stories. Gulyas-Koteles won her lone gold medal in her final Olympic games, in 1956, on the now-shelved team portable apparatus event. Silivas moved to the United States and has been a gymnastics coach in the Atlanta area since the early 1990s. Bosakova's biggest contribution to the sport was also in the balance beam, where she is credited as being the first person to ever complete a cartwheel in the event. Izbasa took a brief break from gymnastics in 2013 to obtain her bachelor's degree but returned to the sport briefly in 2015 in hopes of making the Olympic team in 2016. Khorkinas long legs and lean physique meant she had to think outside the box when putting together her routines. Apart from being a 3-time World champion and a 4-time European champion, Max Whitlock has also earned 6 Olympic medals, 3 of them gold. Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut became world-famous for her amazing acrobatics at the 1972 Olympics. In 2003, he helped his team win the World Title of Trampoline World Championships in the team competition. Here are five women who have done exactly that in gymnastics. in gymnastics history. Born: May 3, 1942 (Prague, Czechoslovakia), Died: Aug. 30, 2016 (Prague, Czech Republic), Olympic years: 1960 (Rome), 1964 (Tokyo), 1968 (Mexico City), Medals: 11 (1960, silver, team all-around; 1964, gold, all-around/gold, vault/gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around; 1968, gold, all-around/gold, vault/gold, uneven bars/gold, floor exercise/silver, team all-around/silver, balance beam). He had ADHD as a child and later also won a choral scholarship but chose to focus on gymnastics instead. Patterson was advised she may have trouble walking if she didn't retire, and formally walked away from the sport. It was first included in 1978 and, after a gap of two Games, has featured in every Games since Auckland in 1990. She wrote her autobiography "Finding My Shine" in 2015, which was the same year she was the grand marshal for the Indy 500. She began a career as a singer in 2020, releasing two singles under the stage name "Ghost." The first British to win a major championship in the horizontal bar category, he announced his retirement from the sport in 2021. How would she have done in 1984? They were silver medalists in the team all-around competition in three straight Olympics in 1948, 1952 and 1956. She soared to fame with the show Gladiators and had a 5-year stint on it.
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